Game #156 GameThread: Jays @ Rays

The last road game of the season. It hasn’t been a run season, but at least we aren’t White Sox fans (they lost their 119th game yesterday). It is a 1:40 Eastern start time.

Ryan Burr gets the start. It would nice if he would go 2 innings. Ryan Yarbrough will be the bulk guy. And then it is Johny Wholestaff.

No Springer today. He’s hitting .246/.318/.298 with just two extra-base hits in September. I don’t know what’s going on. Perhaps 35 is the new 45? I honestly don’t know what I’d do if I ran the team. He has two year left on his huge contract.

We’ll see how things go I guess. If he hit’s like this next year, there would have to be a conversation about releasing him and eating the contract.

He’s hitting lefties (.190/.308/.281) worse that right-handers (.228/.301/.400), so he really doesn’t work as a platoon player. In his career he has hit lefties a little better than righties, this year might be a sample size thing.

I am sure there were a number of triples where the runner stopped at a base and then continued, so I would think there were slowed triples. Of course, now I want to run the bases from home to third and see how I’d do.